If your Google Calendar notification settings suddenly disappear, as happened to me, GOOD LUCK because your only choice is to go through your hundreds or perhaps thousands of clanear events by hand and re-set them. The combination of BusySync and Google Calendar provide NO WAY for you to delete a calendar's events en masse, set the default notification settings, and re-upload all your events for that calendar with the proper notification settings turned on.
I tried deleting my existing Google calendars recreating them by hand with the correct notification settings, and re-syncing, and instead of populating the ones I created, BusySync created identically named ones which it filled with my events, with, you guessed it, the notifications turned off.
I then tried exporting my events from iCal, deleting them from my calendars, hitting BusySync's various "Reset" settings, and re-syncing to have BusySync create the calendars but without any events, so I could set the notification settings before restoring my events from backup. I even tried changing the names of my calendars. No matter what I do, all my old events reappear on my google calendar witgh, you guessed it, the notifications turned off.
Then, if you keep trying, you run into a nasty little surprise... google sets unadvertised 24 hour limits on creating new calendars and on pushing events to existing ones. I am now stuck without my Google calendar for the day, and, because one of my calendars was a birthday calendar which I could only clear by backing up and deleting all my address book entries, without my contacts. Thanks, BusySync.
I thought it was a good product until this PITA. I'm furious at having to waste two hours of time like this over something so stupid.
BusySync
iCal calendar sharing & Google Calendar sync
Version: 2.1.8
I your notification settings suddenly dissapear, YOU'RE SCREWED
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: mikirby Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 11:10 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: NO
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One more try with completely new Google account, same exact problems - mikirby
Well, after waiting a few hours, I thought I'd give BusySync one more try.I have waited several hours.
I have deleted all events from my calendars.
I have deleted all contacts from Address Book.
I have restarted my computer twice.
I have reset BusySync and erased my Sync History.
I have created a completely new Google account to try this with.
And so, I try syncing and... BusySync uploads all the old, deleted events and birthdays -- hundreds of them -- with, you guessed it, notifications turned off. $$%^@!#%#@%%! USELESS!
Damn this terrible, buggy, frustrating app -- After all the time it's cost me to get precisely nothing done, I wish I hadn't ever heard of it!
Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 03:14 PM PDT
1 last try = 1 last frustrating failure to work right - mikirby
So, after typing the above, I noticed that the "location" field in the calendars was filled in with technical gobbledygook created by BusySync (I assume.) So, I deleted the calendars full of the notification-less events, created new calendars with the exact same names, and entered the appropriate "location", which I had copied down for each calendar before deleting.Then I opened BusySync.... and on the Google pane, next to each calendar, it said "already on google" and refused to sync anymore.
Gee, great!
What a POC this software is.
Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 04:56 PM PDT
1 last try = 1 last frustrating failure to work right - BusyMac
If you want to sync alarms in iCal with Google Calendar, you'll have to enable that in BusySync's Google Settings, as described here:http://www.busymac.com/busysync/userguide.html#google-alarms
And here is the recommended way to completely reset your BusySync/Google sync settings and start fresh.
1. Open BusySync, select the Google tab, click the Settings button, and click the Logout button. This will unpublish and unsubscribe all calendars you are syncing with Google and reset your Google settings. Wait a minute or so for the reset to complete.
2. Delete any orphaned calendars that were not properly removed after step 1. An orphaned calendar is a calendar you were subscribed to from Google that is still showing up in iCal. Or a calendar that you were publishing from iCal and is still showing up in Google. If any of those exist, you should manually delete them in iCal and/or Google.
3. Reconfigure your Google Settings: Open the BusySync prefpane, select the Google tab, click the Settings button, enter your login and password, turn on Alarm syncing, and optionally select "Don't publish events older than [3 months]". Then click OK to perform a sync.
If you have further problems, please contact BusyMac technical support directly and send them your logs so they can help troubleshoot the problem.
http://www.busymac.com/logs.html
Regards,
-John
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BusyMac
Wednesday, September 03 2008 @ 05:13 PM PDT
Even more good news... - mikirby
According to <http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-howto/browse_thread/thread/a0dec1bd334b3e4d>, once you are locked out of your google calendar as I have been, it takes A WEEK before you can use it again.Thanks, BusySync. I won't be using your application anymore. I can't have my business disrupted like this.
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Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 11:18 AM PDT